Moore paired her dress, made from a 60-year-old panel of silk and featuring arrow-like spikes, with a stunning Cartier necklace: “It’s this gorgeous flower in the perfect moment of bloom,” said the designer.
Along with Mindy Kaling — who walked the Metropolitan Museum steps in flowy Guarav Gupta — actress and fashion star of the moment Demi Moore wore one of the most sculptural gowns of Met Gala 2024.
On a night when a number of stars played it safe — see Donald Glover in a brown suit — Moore went all out in a custom dress by British-American designer Harris Reed Vogue livestream co-host Ashley Graham called one of “the biggest outfits I’ve seen all night.”
The outspread black dress features large pink-and-white flower imagery and black arrow-like spikes. Moore assured Graham, however, that it wasn’t heavy. “Actually, it’s not heavy at all,” said the actress, cheekily adding, “Feel my hips. They’re soft. It makes you want to rub them.” See all the red carpet arrivals here.
Reed shared that the dress was inspired by the stunning Cartier necklace that Moore paired with the look. “It’s a brand-new piece by Cartier,” said Moore of the piece, which Cartier calls the Nature Sauvage Chloris necklace, crafted in platinum, emeralds and diamonds.
Inspired by the “floral feeling” of the necklace, Harris explained that he created the dress out of vintage archival wallpaper. “We repurposed it. It’s all 11,000 hours of silk embroidery and then we repurposed it into this Victorian idea of basically her blooming on the carpet and covered in these thorns … this gorgeous flower in the perfect moment of bloom.”
Demi Moore and fashion designer Harris Reed attend the 2024 Met Gala.
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Moore’s stylist, Brad Goreski, added in a post on Instagram that the wallpaper used for the dress is from a “60-year-old panel” and that “the chiffon petals at the bottom of the gown are hand painted.”
Cartier Nature Sauvage Chloris Necklace
Cartier
The designer called the 2024 Met Gala evening “one of my favorite moments of my entire life,” adding that he’s proud to be a risk taker in fashion. “Fashion needs to be about risk taking, having fun and just like celebrating beauty and creativity. And I think when I was like, ‘We’re using wallpaper. We’re doing spikes. You’re gonna be a thorn.’ She was all about it.”
Moore concurred she was totally on board: “I said, ‘Yes, let’s do it.”
The actress next stars in The Substance, opposite Margaret Qualley and Dennis Quaid, which will premiere later this month at the Cannes Film Festival. On the Met Gala red carpet, Moore described the film as “about aging — it is in the category of phantasmagoric.”
This year’s dress code, “The Garden of Time,” takes its cue from the 1962 short story of the same name by J.G. Ballard, which dovetails nicely with the latest Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute exhibition, Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion, which opens to the public on Friday, May 10. The Andrew Bolton-curated show spotlights fragile pieces from the institute’s archives, all viewed through a lens of nature. The exhibit’s coffee table book will be released on June 18. Read more of The Hollywood Reporter’s Met Gala coverage here.